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 message was delivered, he obtained admittance. "I come, (said he,) from the Lord, commanding thee to grant a noli prosequi to his faithful servants, whom thou hast unjustly committed to prison." "Thou canst not certainly have come from the Lord, (replied Holt,) for he would have sent thee to the Attorney General, knowing very well that it is not in my power to grant thy demand. Therefore thou art a false prophet, and shalt go and keep thy friends company in prison."

Holt would not have disconcerted this prophet by his logic, if it had not been backed by law. Fanaticism and bigotry are proof against logic. When the pictures of the Virgin at Rome in 1796 moved their eyes, and all Rome crowded to behold them, one of the pictures squinted, and the squint was admitted to be part of the miracle.

 

In Captain Lewis's Account of the 